This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix Arizona
O. Henry’s, “The Gift of the Magi”, follows a young poor couple that give up their greatest belongings in order to buy something special for each other. However, they can not make use of their gifts, because what they gave up, relates to their possessions they gave up. In Sherman Alexie’s “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, the protagonist Victor travels with his childhood friend Thomas to Phoenix to get the remains of his dead father. Thomas tells him the story of Victors dad telling him to “Take care of each other” (156). Through out these two stories, the authors successfully integrate literary devices to draw in the readers. A similar theme that both stories posses is lack of wealth bringing people together.
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Henry’s furthers in demonstrating moments of cosmic irony, in the climax. Della confesses to a surprised Jim that she cut her locks so that she could buy the chain for his timepiece. And Jim reveals to an anxious Della that he has sold his timepiece so that he could buy her the combs that she’s always fantasized about (186-187). Each character reveals to each other that they gave up each others most prized possessions in order to buy each other gifts. Audiences learn that their gifts are useless due to the twist of fate of the pair. Readers are moved because they see the pair’s love for each other as they are not rich but will go to certain lengths to enrich the life of each other. Irony is an element in the “The Gift of the Magi” to not only advance the plot but and effective tool to grasp attention of …show more content…
In the last passage of the story after both characters learn what both went through to buy each others gifts, the author writes, “But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi”(187).The speaker leaves readers with a worthy lesson. The act of giving is what made the characters wise not the gifts that they so cleverly gave each other. The authors tone is notably present in the last passage of the
Understanding the …show more content…
Henry’s furthers in demonstrating moments of cosmic irony, in the climax. Della confesses to a surprised Jim that she cut her locks so that she could buy the chain for his timepiece. And Jim reveals to an anxious Della that he has sold his timepiece so that he could buy her the combs that she’s always fantasized about (186-187). Each character reveals to each other that they gave up each others most prized possessions in order to buy each other gifts. Audiences learn that their gifts are useless due to the twist of fate of the pair. Readers are moved because they see the pair’s love for each other as they are not rich but will go to certain lengths to enrich the life of each other. Irony is an element in the “The Gift of the Magi” to not only advance the plot but and effective tool to grasp attention of …show more content…
In the last passage of the story after both characters learn what both went through to buy each others gifts, the author writes, “But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi”(187).The speaker leaves readers with a worthy lesson. The act of giving is what made the characters wise not the gifts that they so cleverly gave each other. The authors tone is notably present in the last passage of the